Posted by: Iain Fisher
« on: May 16, 2009, 12:51:38 AM »The London premiere was a celeb event. Quentin Letts writes in Forbes
"Sir Paul McCartney kept us all waiting for Godot... There we all were in the theater, twiddling our thumbs, cobras coiled for action. Yet nothing was happening. Tick, tock, the minutes staggered by. Two prime seats in the stalls pulsated with their emptiness. Why are we waiting? We're waiting for Paul. Ex-Beatle McCartney, with rock-star regard for promptness, swanned in six minutes late, accompanied by his latest arm candy (dark-haired, smiley, aged about 20 by the look of her). Henna-haired Sir Paul, a slender Peter Pan with springy gait, was pointed to his seat by a scraping usher. Floated past several bodies, he did, without so much as an "oops" or a "sorry." Sat down and gave a blithe, high-eyebrowed look to left and right as if to say, "Right, I'm ready, what's the hold up?" Ten seconds later the play began."
"...Enfant terrible director Steven Berkoff had turned up looking cross, veins twitching on his bald head.
And Sting was in the stalls. Nothing snooty about him, thank goodness... Good old Sting was one of the first members of the audience to take his seat, a comfortable 10 minutes before the 7 p.m. curtain-up."
"...Godot as showbiz!
Sam Beckett would have found it all decidedly odd."
The full article is here:
www.forbes.com/2009/05/13/paul-mccartney-ian-mckellen-patrick-stewart-opinions-columnists-waiting-for-godot.html
"Sir Paul McCartney kept us all waiting for Godot... There we all were in the theater, twiddling our thumbs, cobras coiled for action. Yet nothing was happening. Tick, tock, the minutes staggered by. Two prime seats in the stalls pulsated with their emptiness. Why are we waiting? We're waiting for Paul. Ex-Beatle McCartney, with rock-star regard for promptness, swanned in six minutes late, accompanied by his latest arm candy (dark-haired, smiley, aged about 20 by the look of her). Henna-haired Sir Paul, a slender Peter Pan with springy gait, was pointed to his seat by a scraping usher. Floated past several bodies, he did, without so much as an "oops" or a "sorry." Sat down and gave a blithe, high-eyebrowed look to left and right as if to say, "Right, I'm ready, what's the hold up?" Ten seconds later the play began."
"...Enfant terrible director Steven Berkoff had turned up looking cross, veins twitching on his bald head.
And Sting was in the stalls. Nothing snooty about him, thank goodness... Good old Sting was one of the first members of the audience to take his seat, a comfortable 10 minutes before the 7 p.m. curtain-up."
"...Godot as showbiz!
Sam Beckett would have found it all decidedly odd."
The full article is here:
www.forbes.com/2009/05/13/paul-mccartney-ian-mckellen-patrick-stewart-opinions-columnists-waiting-for-godot.html